Haii, I've played ExploitRO for about a month. I decided to write a server review because a) This was a fun server where I met some really good people and b) This server Failed to listen to the Player Base suggestions and made the server unenjoyable experience
Server StabilityStability: 5
Availability: 4
ExploitRO has plenty of Lag Spikes, I think there has been about one day a week when there was hardly any lag. The server is usually up, but also consists of plenty of downtime (Exploits usual explanation is her "crappy" internet or "my mom pulled my computer plug"). Server was running from the Admin's own Desktop till just recently, and even after she just switched to a Host, she decided to switch to yet another one due to arising issues, so even the hosted Beta was down.
CommunityFriendliness: 8
Eventfulness:3
The server community consisted of not so many people which made it easy to know everyone in the server and be familiar with them. The only thing I really found distasteful was how some people rather kissed up to the GM's/Admin in hopes of some type of position rather then to speak how they REALLY felt on an issue. Eventfulness of this server was something next to Fail. The Events usually consisted of the same thing, I believe GM Sela was the most original Event holder but even then her prize was lame. All-in-All, during my time at the server there has been 1 Team PVP Event, 3 Zombie Events, 1 Dice Roll, and 2 others that the players got to pick. All the prizes consisted of: little sums of money (Around 100m which is easily obtainable), Questable items (usually the 3rd easiest quest available), and Mall items (Why would someone put there time into an event if they can warp to the mall and BUY the prize themselves)
Game-PlayEconomy: 1
Guild Competition: 1
Class Balance: 5
Economy isnt very settled. People put up shops with random prices of what they think is decent. Money is incredibly easy to make, but there not much to spend it on. Guild Competition is horrid. 2-3 Major guilds and a couple others that dont really WoE or participate in PvP (Technically theres 1 major guild now since 2 just quit after an huge issue). Class balance is alright, but some delays are too much. Players can give suggestions for Delays, but some people dont bother because of how Biased the GM team is.
Game MastersFriendliness: 1
Availbility: 1
Helpfulness: 7
Admin Exploit
Talking to her she seemed really friendly but being available wasn't her specialty, I understand that she has a life and probably lots of things going on, but to run a server she has to be more available to the community (We know you work behind the scenes but it helps the community to know the Admin is active in-game and hasn't le poofed). When ever there was someone in town asked for help she would give them guidance despite how rude they may have been or how difficult they were making it. The only thing I can really say I disliked about her is that she seemed to dislike being Wrong about anything, and she didnt listen to certain suggestions (usually TR's), I personally believe that the suggestions she blew off were actually very appealing, and she would give a statement that made no sense, and showed how inexperienced she was.
GM Karas & GM Forsakened
I never personally got to know either of these GM's but they seemed like really friendly people. Neither of them was really all that active, all I can really say is that they were only on 2~3 times in the month I played. Recently GM Karas became an on/off GM due to him opening up a shop.
GM Sela
Never really saw her helping anyone and never really saw her ON at all. She was on twice. She was taking a break from her mothers cat dying and because she started a Save The Hedgehogs Foundation or something. I can understand when someone is an Animal lover and has a strong connection with them, but I dont think she fits this position properly, it seems her emotional issues might get in the way too much. Another thing about this GM is that she was supposedly hired after 2 days of being on the server, it was apparent she had no really personal experience with the server so she failed to really help at all. The one time I talked to her she seemed really friendly.
LostDreams
I really have no idea who this guy is, I know that he was recently hired as Head Developer and for unknown reasons the "Developer" needs GM rights on the Forum board. He literally came out of no where, no one really knows him, but to me it was really apparent that he is a person with No Patience, and he seems rather extremely Power Hungry. He has no respect for people below him, and he seems to believe that being in a high position on the server gave him some Magic Power of Knowledge thinking he can assume what he wants and be right without facts. Just reading everything he said shows that he thinks he knows ExploitRO and its people. That is quite the fail. He has no Personal Experience with the community but he decides he has the right to judge everyone. He spent less then a couple of days on the server, and he already had people disliking his ways. This guy is very biased and rather EXTREMELY RUDE.
Side Note on Staff behaviourI have played this server for just over a month. I loved it very much, the people I met here made the time spent worth while, but recently a issue arised. Exploit told us that she would be converting the server from TXT to SQL and that we would go under
Beta Testing for two weeks, where we wouldnt have our original accounts, but after Beta Testing they would be restored. Hearing that our original accounts would be restored at the end of Beta Testing we were all for it (Well us people in Juicebox Guild were). So when Beta Testing commenced (August 1, 2009), many people signed up, and it was going pretty well, until Exploit (Admin) posted up a new thread on forums, stating that she didn't know how to convert the TXT to SQL when it came to the Character Database, thus meaning we would NOT have our accounts restored.
She then announced that she would compensate our losses with certain items of in which didn't even come close to the items players already possessed.
Many people were outrages by this turn of events and asked why she couldnt just do a manual restore of ALL our items, and she claimed it would take too long (Despite theres only 40ish people). People were posting in the thread where she said posted the loss of items, and Exploit deleted all the post and said we'd get banned for posting off topic. So instead the player base decided to take their voices to the flame thread where the rules stated You cant be offended and everything goes. After some rude posts of people
trying to make a point,
LostDreams steps and decides to curse at people, which is perfectly fine, its the
Flame Thread. He THEN decides to CLOSE the thread and threatens to bann us.
LostDreams obviously proves to be a HORRIBLE add to the Staff of ExploitRO and this shows the poor judgment skills held by Exploit herself (She must think high of herself if she thinks she can state something and then tell people it was all a hoax after a month and believe there wont be much negative response) . She fails to bring in the proper help needed for the server, and cannot even handle being questioned. This WAS a server with good people (must the people I know already quit after this fate of events), but horrible service.
Hope this review helped (=
<3Skittles from JUICEBOX (Not TR ^^)
